Our Work:Creating Together, Grooving Together
From Ghana to Colorado With Joy


 

Calvin, Hool, Ebenezer, and Richmond from Bethel School in Prampram, Ghana

This mural was created in collaboration with the students of Abume School and Ghana Education Service in Abume, Ghana. The students brought to life traditional proverbs from their community and infused the canvas with rhythmic brushstrokes from Agbadza a dance and drumming piece of the Ewe tribe of Ghana, Togo, and Benin

In collaboration with the entire community of Tafi Abuife and a grant from the Rhode Island School of Design, Hool and Sampson facilitated a renewal of a condemned building with masonry and artwork providing a place for the kente weavers of Tafi Abuife to sell their handiwork.

During covid Sampson and Hool put a handwritten prompt on their door and students who were home from school due to the quarantine would create an art project in response to the prompt. Here is Prince and Stephen with their younger siblings and the prompt was "Home"

Students would come to our house compound after school to learn how to silk screen and participate in drawing projects, this was a market scene drawing mural that explored the innate rhythms of the community

Hool and the boys played music together on top of the canvas mural we were painting. Now painting with sound.

We infused the art lesson with a little bit of dance!

The two winners of the Covid Art Everyday Challenge

Theodocia and Jude creating a vehicle from found material for the Covid Art Prompt Challenge

The master drummers and elders in Prampram came to the school on Fridays to teach the children culture dance and rhythms at Bethel School.

Project in color theory and counting

in Ghana, the baby feels the rhythm of daily life while attached to the mother. Drawing by Akosombo Student Georgina

Hool made Cigol (Left) a cycloptic spider that plays the drums and dances. Cigol was born while Hool was enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design and took a class called Creature Creation at a local, infamous puppet studio titled the Big Nazo Lab. Cigol became a creature teacher and went with Hool to Ghana.

As part of the Covid Creative Everyday Art Challenge

Eugenia responded to the traditional rhythms of Ga Region, i.e. Kpanlogo and made two musical self-portraits to show her emotional response

A glimpse of the people, places, and ideas we bring together with joy.

A glimpse of the people, places, and ideas we bring together with joy.

Feeling the rhythm and the moment at a summer concert, with our little girl experiencing it with us